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Metafilter MeFi: [as a mushroom cloud rises in the distance] Apocalypse Early Warning System In the event of an imminent nuclear apocalypse, we suspect that many people who have access to private jets will immediately take to the skies and escape city centers. This site tracks this indicator in realtime.

May 5 2026, 3:39am | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: Some People Can't See Mental Images - The Consequences Are Profound Aphantasia - an interesting variant in human experience (New Yorker archive link) Nick knew that whenever Zeman talked about aphantasia he was at pains to emphasize that it was not a disorder, or even a bad thing... Some people he interviewed were unbothered—there…

November 8 2025, 2:59pm | Comments
Ask Metafilter What happens in your mind when you read this paragraph? When I read the very 1st paragraph of this article, I had a series of mini revelations about how my mind works, and perhaps the minds of others. I'd appreciate it if you read it first (just the 1st paragraph), and then came…

October 12 2025, 7:01am | Comments
Bookmark On the abolition of man - Joe Carlsmith
Have you read The Abolition of Man, by C.S. Lewis? As usual: no worries if not (I’ll summarize it in a second). But: recommended.

May 12 2025, 6:10am | Comments
Bookmark Could you pass 'Humanity’s Last Exam'? Probably not, but neither can AI…
Did you know some of the smartest people on the planet create benchmarks to test AI’s capabilities at replicating human intelligence? Well, scarily enough most AI benchmarks are easily completed by…

May 12 2025, 4:40am | Comments
Bookmark Elon Musk, and How Techno-Fascism Has Come to America | The New…
When a phalanx of the top Silicon Valley executives—Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Google’s Sundar Pichai—aligned behind President Trump during the Inauguration in January, many observers saw an allegiance…

March 7 2025, 3:55am | Comments
Bookmark Our Monsters, Ourselves
Humans have always lived alongside monsters, both real and imagined. The etymological root of the word also gives us “demonstrate,” and monsters have always been used by humans to demonstrate the…

March 5 2025, 8:55pm | Comments
Bookmark Paul Taylor · Llamas, Pizzas, Mandolins: AI Doomerism
Late last year, Rishi Sunak interviewed Elon Musk in front of an invited audience after the Bletchley Park summit on AI safety.

January 25 2025, 8:55pm | Comments
Bookmark The Enclosure of the Human Psyche - by L. M. Sacasas
Welcome to the Convivial Society, a newsletter about technology and culture.

January 22 2025, 9:25am | Comments
Bookmark What are students using AI for? - by Spencer Lane Jones
Welcome to the first of what we hope will be many posts about teaching writing in the age of AI! The Important Work is a space for writing instructors at all…

January 11 2025, 8:03pm | Comments
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Top highlightThe New Self-HelpThe Only Way to Resist the Attention EconomyQuitting Facebook isn’t the answerWe live in an age where there are many systemic abuses that should be refused. I propose…

January 9 2025, 6:37am | Comments
Bookmark The Essay as Realm - The Georgia Review
When I was nine or ten years old, my grandmother gave me a book full of so many random, interesting facts and tidbits of science and history I sometimes think it’s…

November 17 2024, 4:27am | Comments
Bookmark No Human Being Can Exist | Online Only | n+1 | Saree…
How can a person make up for seven decades of misrepresentation and willful distortion in the time allotted to a sound bite? Recently, an Australian-Palestinian friend of mine was invited to…

November 17 2024, 4:27am | Comments
Bookmark Why You May Never See the Documentary on Prince by Ezra Edelman…
Dig, if you will, a small slice of Ezra Edelman’s nine-hour documentary about Prince — a cursed masterpiece that the public may never be allowed to see.

September 16 2024, 9:47pm | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: The Prince We Never Knew Ezra Edelman has made a nine-hour documentary about the complicated life and passing of the musician Prince, but disputes with the late artist's estate over his portrayal may mean it might never be seen.

September 8 2024, 12:32pm | Comments
Bookmark How Tone of Voice Shapes Your Classroom Culture How Teacher Tone of…
It’s no easy task, but developing your tone of voice can build trust, reduce conflict, and set the stage for more learning in your classroom, research shows. Using your voice to…

June 13 2024, 6:57pm | Comments
Bookmark Linking the g(URL) – Syllabus
Girl dinner, hot girl walk, that girl, clean girl, girl boss, girl math, girl blog, hot girl summer, pick me girl, christian girl autumn, vsco girl, e-girl, good girl, bad girl,…

April 18 2024, 12:32pm | Comments
Syllabus Cache Linking the g(URL) – Syllabus
Girl dinner, hot girl walk, that girl, clean girl, girl boss, girl math, girl blog, hot girl summer, pick me girl, christian girl autumn, vsco girl, e-girl, good girl, bad girl, sad girl, manic pixie dream girl, i’m…

April 18 2024, 12:32pm | Comments
Bookmark Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I. | The New Yorker
On December 15, 1811, the London Statesman issued a warning about the state of the stocking industry in Nottingham. Twenty thousand textile workers had lost their jobs because of the incursion…

February 12 2024, 10:03am | Comments
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November 27 2023, 11:53am | Comments
Bookmark You’re wrong about how the internet fuels conspiracy theories
Conspiracy theories are popular and there is no doubt that the internet has fuelled them on. From the theory that 9/11 was an inside job to the idea that reptilian humanoids rule the world, conspiracy…

November 24 2023, 11:33am | Comments
Bookmark Flesh Moves
Whatever future comes, one thing is fairly certain, excepting total American collapse—the goods will continue to flow. By human, by vehicle, by automaton, or by some combination of the three,stuff will…

November 24 2023, 11:33am | Comments
Bookmark Jordan Peterson & Fascist Mysticism | Pankaj Mishra | The New York Review…
“Men have to toughen up,” Jordan B. Peterson writes in 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote to Chaos, “Men demand it, and women want it.” So, the first rule is, “Stand…

November 24 2023, 11:33am | Comments
Bookmark Heroku | Application Error
For as long as I can remember, I’ve desired romantic relationships with boys, and then as I got older, men. Also for as long as I can remember, I’ve had sexual…

November 24 2023, 11:33am | Comments
Bookmark Malcolm Harris on Glitch Capitalism and AI Logic
Of all the buzzy 21st-century tech phrases, “machine learning” threatens to be the most important. Programming computers is slow, but we’re nearing the point where humans give the bots parameters and…

November 24 2023, 11:33am | Comments
Bookmark Yanis Varoufakis: Marx predicted our present crisis – and points the way…
For a manifesto to succeed, it must speak to our hearts like a poem while infecting the mind with images and ideas that are dazzlingly new.

November 24 2023, 11:33am | Comments
Bookmark The humanist left must challenge the rise of cyborg socialism
Undiagnosed by the mainstream media and much of the academic community, a major intellectual renewal is underway across the left. It is energetic and tech-savvy, building platforms such as Novara Media.

November 24 2023, 11:33am | Comments
Bookmark ChatGPT Is Nothing Like a Human, Says Linguist Emily Bender
And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this. This article was featured in One Great…

November 23 2023, 3:37am | Comments
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November 15 2023, 9:00am | Comments
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November 7 2023, 7:35am | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: It isn't lost and it isn't a masterpiece Apparently back in 1975, Graham Chapman of Monty Python and Douglas Adams not quite yet of Hitchhiker's Guide wrote a television show. It's an incomprehensible mess that's entirely worth watching. Out Of The Trees [32m]

September 26 2023, 12:43pm | Comments

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